True Blood Renewed For Season 7

HBO has renewed True Blood for a seventh season, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. New episodes of the series will debut in summer 2014, with executive producer Brian Buckner returning as showrunner.

“True Blood remains a signature show for HBO, and a true phenomenon with our viewers,” noted Lombardo. “Thanks to Brian Buckner and his talented team, the show continues to be a thrill ride like nothing else on TV.”

The sixth season launched on June 26, and according to the network, early data indicates that the show already exceeding ten million viewers per episode.

True Blood takes place in a world where vampires and humans co-exist, after vampires have "come out of the coffin", thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood that means they no longer need humans as a nutritional source. The series follows waitress and part-faerie Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who can hear people’s thoughts, vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) - now Billith, and vampire Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård). Alan Ball (creator of Six Feet Under) created the show, which is based on the bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris.